1200-700 BC. Bronze Age. Beautiful bronze axe head with short, curved blade, triangular cheek, rounded socket and handle-sleeve and a spiked projection on the reverse. Bronze weaponry production flourished in western Asia, the Aegean, and Mainland Greece from the 2nd millennium BC to about 700 BC, when it was gradually replaced by iron. Axes, swords, spears, and arrows were important symbols of war in Bronze Age societies and served as powerful reminders that authority rested in the hands of those who could earn it. Good condition; superb patina. On a custom-made stand.Size: L:85mm / W:185mm ; 855g; rovenance: Obtained on the London art market in the early 2000s; formerly from the collection of an English Family, by descents form the 1970s.